Undergarment.



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APPLICATION '["lLED IAN-29, 1912.

Patented June 13, 1916.

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:BYRON J'. SNYDER, AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK.,y ASSIGNOR TO CHALMERS K .NITTING' COMPANY, OF AMSTERDAM, NEW' YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters'vPatent. yPatented June 13, 1916,

Application filedll'anuary 29, 1912. Serial No. 673,966.

To allwhom t may concern: -v

Be it known that I, BYRON J. SNYDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Amsterdam, county of f Montgomery and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Undergarmen'ts, of. which the following is a speciiication. j

The invention relates to such improvements and consists of the novel construction and Combination ofparts hereinafter .de-

vscribed and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had tothe accompanying drawings, and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

-Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is` a view in front elevation of a combination undergar- Fig. 2 is a view in vrear elevation of thesame. Fig.

is a view in front elevation ofthe same with the front of the garment Vbroken `away from the crotch up, to show the flap construction fory protecting the crotch-opening. F ig. 4 is a view in rear elevation of the same with the-rear of the garment broken away from the crotch'up, to show the manner in which the mutually'lapping fiaps Close the front opening of the garment.Y Figs. 3 and 'a larger scale than Figs. l and'2. 4

This invention relates to Aundergarments of various kinds, and I have shown the invention embodied in itsL preferred form in a combination undergarment having an open crotch.

Certain objects of the invention are tto:

provide an undergarment with a properly protected liberal crotch-opening; to secure proper fitting of the crotch portion' of the garment ;V and to relieve the pull of the crotch portion of a close-fitting undergarment, and particularly' of a combination undergarment.

Other objects will appearin connection undergarment having an open crotch, such as a combination or union garment, I protect the crotch-opening yby mutually lapping flaps which extend from frontvto rear around the crotch, each having a free edge extending from a point at one side of the middle of the back of the garment to a point provided `with a front ,opening extending part wayk only to itscroteh, and ada ted to be closed by button-connected front aps, 2 and 3,'in the usual manner; and 4 and', are, respectively, inner and outer gores or flaps 'which extend from front to rear around the crotch of the garment, said iiaps preferably lapping each other uniformly throughouttheir length. At the front .of the garment these lapped flaps are secured to the body of the garment by a seam, 6,

extending across the lower end of the front f yopening to permanently close the same; and

said flaps are connected Vby a seam, 7 along tect, said connecting seam, 7,'- extending down to points inthe respective legs, "8, of,"

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the garment. The flaps 4 and 5, are shown adapted tolap each throughout their length'l the garment from a point, 10,V on the left;- hand side of the back of the garment whereatk it leaves the seam, 7, to a point, 11,7011

the left-hand side o-f the front of the garment whereat it leaves the kseam 6.Y In like manner the inner. edge, 12, of the flap,t5, is kfree from the( body of the garment from a point, 13, on the righthand side of the back of the garment wliereat it Aleaves the seam, 7, to a point, 14, on the right-hand lside of'the'front of the garment whereatit leavesI the 'seam 6. The points, 10 and 13, are equidistant from' the middle of the back, and the ment. It' is not necessary, therefore, for

either of the iiaps, 4V and 5, to assume aforced position to fill and protect the crotchopening; but, when the garmentv is held' vertically, theseiiaps naturally fally intoa mutally lapping position, entirely iilling and protecting the crotch-opening.y

The crotch-opening Ycan be exposed by.

,drawing the flaps, 4 and 5, apart; and, as

otherr uniformly The inner edge,r

9, of the iap,'4,'is free from the body of Y n points, l1 and 14, are equidistant from the middle of the front of the gar'- Y Y the naps are symmetrically disposed andthe right-hand and kleft-hand portions of the crotchvof the garment are symmetrical, said flaps can be so separated with minimum pull upon the` legs or body of the garment.

Inthe use Yof a-combination garment, unv.

- lessvthe garment is'made of ample length fromthe shoulder to the crotch, the crotch` 'portion'. of thegarmentwill exert an unvcomfortable pullupon thewearer. A similar'pull lmay be experienced with a nether V:garment unless it is made of ample length i .from thek crotch -to the waist-line 'whereby l" -elasticity of the kbodyfof the garment longifthe garment is supported. i 15` tures of this invention contemplates the overcoming of this objectionable feature of VV'close-iitting" undergarments by providing the garment witha back-gore made of fabric .highlyelastic longitudinally ofthe garment r as compared withits elasticity'transversely of they garment, andas compared with the tudinally. fWith va vback-gore so made extending upward Zfrom the crotch of the garment, the `yielding of the gore-fabric ver- .tically or longitudinally of the! garment will relieve'the pressure at the crotch,'even when the garment is somewhat .scant in length, and. will also relieve pressure at the crotch vkwhich would otherwise result from strained positions of the wearer veven though the garment fit properlyin normal positions of ythe wearer. l j

y If'have shown thebody of Vthegarment made' ofknitted fabric with the 'wales extending longitudinally; or vertically, where- 'bytlieagarment is rendered-highly elastic Y @horizontally -oiytransversely, and I Y have fshown asia preferred construction eachy of fthe-goresV or flaps, et and V5, formed of a l *fi'fontgorepiec/e,4a orc'a?, made of'knitted `fabric with nthe wales running vertically or Y longitudinally,and;- a rear gore-piece, lb oi' 5b, made of knitted fabric with the wales ex-V -tending horizontally Y. or transversely, the jigorepiece,4, Vbeingsecuredto thev gorelpiece,` 4b, by, a fseain,fl5., and thegore-piece,

. seam-16. .Theiseamafl' andl, are located 5,0l C Y the gorepie'cesib and 5b, extendingupward Aapproximately at the crotch of the garment,

vfrointhe crotch at the back of the garment.

n, et .this patentlinay Vbe Yobtained for l For certain purposes of the invention, 'however, saidgores or iapsmay be made of any fdesir'ed vmaterial in any known manner.y

4r "fVhere `parts ofthe garment haverbeen 1 wshown'in crossssectionin Figs Sand 4;, a .;-vsinglejply only .of fabricV has been shown,

andY no ,attempt has been madeto show the One of the fea-v facings with vwhich the flap-portions of the garment are provided in the usual manner.

In the preferred form of my invention the garment, while having an open'crotch with the advantages pertaining thereto, has a closed-crotch effect, the open crotch being Afilled and inclosed by the mutually lapping flaps.

`What I claim as new and desire to secure by 'Letters Patent is` l. A combination undergarment having lan open crotch, and provided with a front yopening extending part way only to the crotch, and having a pair of mutually lapping iiaps extending from front to rear around the crotch and closing the lower end of said front opening, each of said flaps having a free edge extending from a point at one side of the middle of the back of the one side of said front opening, the body of said garment and the front portion of'said flaps being made ofknitted fabric with the ygarment to a point at the same side of the f middle of the front of the garment, and at wales extending longitudinally of the garvthe wales'of one section extending crosswise andthe wales vof the other extending' lengthwise of the garment, whereby the flap is rendered elastic in all directions.

3. A garment having an opening therein and a fiap arrangedfto cover said opening7 .said flap having its upper portion and a longitudinal edge secured to the body of the garment and having a free longitudinal edgejand comprising an upper fabric sec` tion'with the wales thereof extending cross'- wise of thel garment and a lower fabric section having its upperedge secured to the upper section and having the wales thereof extending lengthwise of the garment, whereby the flap is rendered elastic in all direc` tions.v c

' Intestimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 22nd day of January, 1912.

. BYRON J. SNYD-ER.

Witnesses MORRELL HEMs-TREET,

Hum-i MCGRAIL.

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